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Massive Negro Demonstration 'Only a Beginning'

Massive Negro Demonstration 'Only a Beginning'

Massive Negro Demonstration 'Only a Beginning'

Massive Negro Demonstration 'Only a Beginning'

Massive Negro Demonstration 'Only a Beginning'

August 29, 1963
August 1963
The Eugene Guard (Eugene, Oregon)
Massive Negro Demonstration 'Only a Beginning'
No Evidence of Any Effect on Congress - The historic civil rights march on Washington - massive and orderly and moving - has dramatized the wants of Negroes in America, but leaders still faced the task today of trying to turn drama into action. Speaker after speaker told the 200,000 Negro and white sympathizers massed in front of the Lincoln Memorial Wednesday that their demonstration was no more than a beginning. 'Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content,' said the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 'will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual.' Demonstrators and their leaders made it clear that one sign of progress, in their view, would be congressional approval of President Kennedy's civil rights bill...

President Kennedy Appeal to Nation to End Racial Discrimination

President Kennedy Appeal to Nation to End Racial Discrimination

President Kennedy Appeal to Nation to End Racial Discrimination

President Kennedy Appeal to Nation to End Racial Discrimination

President Kennedy Appeal to Nation to End Racial Discrimination

June 11, 1963
June 1963
President Kennedy Appeal to Nation to End Racial Discrimination
President Kennedy outlined a broad legislative program on civil rights tonight and asked the American people for help in ending racial discrimination and in stemming "the rising tide of discontent that perils the public safety." The President spoke to the nation after Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama bowed to federal pressure and stepped aside so two Negro students could register at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. In his radio-television talk, the President cited the Alabama crisis in making his appeal and outlining his legislative program...

New Guidelines for Foreign Aid May Affect Specific Nations

New Guidelines for Foreign Aid May Affect Specific Nations

New Guidelines for Foreign Aid May Affect Specific Nations

New Guidelines for Foreign Aid May Affect Specific Nations

New Guidelines for Foreign Aid May Affect Specific Nations

April 4, 1963
April 1963
Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro, Kentucky)
New Guidelines for Foreign Aid May Affect Specific Nations
FOREIGN AID PATTERN - Will the developing nations have to adjust their sights and hopes to meet the new look in American foreign aid? Officials at the Agency for International Development (AID) have declined to divulge just how the new guidelines for foreign aid will affect specific nations. But non-government experts surveyed by the Associated Press have applied the principles laid down by Gen. Lucius Clay's special study committee and by President Kennedy in his foreign aid message to congress on Tuesday, and generally have come up with these conclusions...

That Man, Jomo Kenyatta

That Man, Jomo Kenyatta

That Man, Jomo Kenyatta

That Man, Jomo Kenyatta

That Man, Jomo Kenyatta

December 23, 1962
December 1962
Lansing State Journal (Lansing, Michigan)
That Man, Jomo Kenyatta
The words came cold and clipped from the government secretary with gray hair and pale English skin. "When that man enters a room," she said, "I can feel the hackles rise up and down my back. Even if I don't see him, I can feel that man." That man is Jomo Kenyatta. A court has convicted him of managing the savage Mau Mau uprising in Kenya. A British governor has condemned him as "the African leader to darkness and death." Yet, within a year or two, when the colony of Kenya assumes independence, Jomo Kenyatta likely will be the new nation's first prime minister. The gray-haired Englishwoman and other white settlers watch this onrush to power helplessly, with distaste and bitterness. To them, a man streaked in evil and blood is reaching for their rolling, green land. But whites number no more than one per cent of Kenya's six million people. Africans see a different Kenyatta...

Task Forces Asked by Kennedy

Task Forces Asked by Kennedy

Task Forces Asked by Kennedy

Task Forces Asked by Kennedy

Task Forces Asked by Kennedy

January 6, 1961
January 1961
Task Forces Asked by Kennedy
Since election day, committees have tossed sheaves of paper on to the desk of President-Elect John F. Kennedy. The papers give him advice on how to reshape, readjust, or revitalize America. Kennedy asked for it. The committees are the special task forces he assigned to recommend ways to solve such problems as distressed areas, defense needs, and overcrowded schools. Kennedy appointed some before election day. The President-Elect asked prominent public officials to head some task forces. He named professors to head others. In one case, the task force comprised one man. Not all the reports have been made public. Not all have been endorsed. But, in general, the reports seem to follow Kennedy's campaign promises and may give some indication of the future course of his administration...

Little Rock Negroes Deny They Don't Want Integration

Little Rock Negroes Deny They Don't Want Integration

Little Rock Negroes Deny They Don't Want Integration

Little Rock Negroes Deny They Don't Want Integration

Little Rock Negroes Deny They Don't Want Integration

September 15, 1957
September 1957
The Tyler Courier-Times (Tyler, Texas)
Little Rock Negroes Deny They Don't Want Integration
The balding, stocky white man pointed a finger excitedly. "You newsmen are missing the real story," he said. "The negroes don't want integration any more than we white folks do. Why don't you talk to them. Pick out any group. You'll find out what I know." The Associated Press followed the suggestion of the man in the angry crowd at Central High, the school kept segregated by Gov. Orval Faubus and the National Guard. But the results did not show what the segregationist said he knew. Nineteen negroes were interviewed, some in their homes, some at their jobs. They were rich and poor, with elegant furniture and threadbare rugs. Some spoke with college accents, others mumbled. A few were grandmothers, two were old maids. One man shoveled dirt for a plumber, another headed a large school...

Doctors & patients at US's only leprosarium divided on mysteries of leprosy

Doctors & patients at US's only leprosarium divided on mysteries of leprosy

Doctors & patients at US's only leprosarium divided on mysteries of leprosy

Doctors & patients at US's only leprosarium divided on mysteries of leprosy

Doctors & patients at US's only leprosarium divided on mysteries of leprosy

January 26, 1957
January 1957
Sioux City Journal (Sioux City, Iowa)
Doctors & patients at US's only leprosarium divided on mysteries of leprosy
The patient, his hands melted away by leprosy, laughed: "no, don't take my picture," he said. "I’ll break the camera." Is his ancient joke tragic or funny? As you walk through the corridors of the nation's only leprosarium, you get no answer, only more questions - hazy, disturbing questions about a hospital filled with conflict. You are not even sure if the government - at a cost of $1,600,000 a year - should operate such a hospital. Most of the 300 patients seem to feel there is no need. They feel social fright, not medical sense, has placed them in forced isolation, sometimes for years, sometimes for life. Their battle is not against a germ but against a public attitude that pictures leprosy as terrifying and unclean. They feel more leprosy sufferers would seek earlier treatment if it did not mean forced segregation...
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Nurses Do Less Nursing

Nurses Do Less Nursing

Nurses Do Less Nursing

Nurses Do Less Nursing

Nurses Do Less Nursing

April 23, 1955
April 1955
The News And Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina)
Nurses Do Less Nursing
Mary Smith, a new student nurse, dreamed of the day she would minister tenderly among clean, white beds. In her excited young mind, she could see herself bending over a coughing little boy, her gentle hand pushing back the dampened hair from his forehead. Three years later, in the crisp uniform of a registered nurse, she entered a big city hospital. Now she had her clean white beds and the coughing boy. But when the boy coughed, it was an aide who bent over him. Mary had to scribble on charts, mix medications, prepare hypodermic needles, supervise student nurses. She had no time for nursing in the old sense. What's more, a group of Tulane University researchers have concluded, that's the way Mary wants things to be, even though she may neither realize nor admit this fact...
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Bilbo White Supremacy Stand Got Headlines, But Plans for Salvation of Cotton Got Results

Bilbo White Supremacy Stand Got Headlines, But Plans for Salvation of Cotton Got Results

Bilbo White Supremacy Stand Got Headlines, But Plans for Salvation of Cotton Got Results

Bilbo White Supremacy Stand Got Headlines, But Plans for Salvation of Cotton Got Results

Bilbo White Supremacy Stand Got Headlines, But Plans for Salvation of Cotton Got Results

April 16, 1955
April 1955
Statesman Journal (Salem, Oregon)
Bilbo White Supremacy Stand Got Headlines, But Plans for Salvation of Cotton Got Results
Twenty years ago, the late Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-Miss), powered by two ideas, stepped into Congress. He had decided to resettle Negroes and save cotton. His first plan, to ship American Negroes to Africa, grabbed headlines all over the nation and made Bilbo the symbol of white supremacy in the South. The symbol grew so large it overshadowed the soundness of his second idea. But out of the plan to save cotton grew four regional research laboratories. These scientific centers now save American farmers, especially those of the South, millions of dollars each year...

Graham Says Stringfellow Case Tragic

Graham Says Stringfellow Case Tragic

Graham Says Stringfellow Case Tragic

Graham Says Stringfellow Case Tragic

Graham Says Stringfellow Case Tragic

October 17, 1954
October 1954
Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, North Carolina)
Graham Says Stringfellow Case Tragic
Evangelist Billy Graham today said he almost wept when he learned Rep. Douglas Stringfellow (R-Utah) for years told a false story of wartime service. "He lost his character. Now, he has lost his friends. How terrible! How tragic!” the North Carolina minister told 16,000 persons, the largest crowd to attend a crusade sermon here. Graham cited the example of Stringfellow in a sermon on "America's Greatest Sin." The Utah congressman last night tearfully repudiated his story of World War II experiences with the Office of Strategic Services. Stringfellow's admission substantiated an Army Times story that questioned his service record. “The great sin of America is we are putting all our emphasis on the material, the secular, the body and so little on the soul," the evangelist told the crowd that filled Pelican Stadium in the cool, sunny afternoon...